The Centre for Combating Extremism (Russian: Главное управление по противодействию экстремизму МВД России, romanized: Glavnoye upravleniye po protivodeystviyu ekstremizmu MVD Rossii), also known as Centre E (Russian: Центр «Э») is a unit within the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

[1] The unit has been especially active in the North Caucasus and also in Crimea following its annexation in 2014.

The Centre E has been widely accused of prosecuting and harassing opposition groups, anti-regime bloggers, environmentalists and other civic activists.

[3][4] One example of their work is the suppression of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia.

[5] The unit is also primarily responsible for suppression of LGBT symbolism in the country.